Decks have been cleared for a PDP-BJP government in Jammu & Kashmir possibly within a week with both sides agreeing on a common minimum programme (CMP) which is understood to have addressed controversial issues like Article 370 and AFSPA.
Sources privy to the development said PDP patron Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, who is likely to be the chief minister for the entire six year term, will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi early next week when the announcement on government formation is expected to be made.
Ahead of the Mufti-Modi meeting, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti will fly in here on Sunday and meet senior BJP leaders, the sources said.
The leaders of the PDP, which has 28 MLAs and BJP with 25 MLAs in the 87-member assembly, chose to keep under wraps details of the CMP as also how the two sides thrashed out contentious issues including Article 370, the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and rehabilitation of nearly 25,000 West Pakistan refugees over which they were sharply divided.
The CMP needs to be read in totality and not in bits and pieces, leaders from both the political parties, who preferred anonymity, stressed.
——PTI